Bondi 'caveman' shares millionaire views

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2007

SYDNEY (AFP) — When Jhiymy Mhiyles arrived in Sydney homeless and broke during the 2000 Olympic Games, he decided he liked Bondi beach so much that he set up camp on the cliffs overlooking the famous stretch of sand.

He's stayed there ever since, enjoying million-dollar views from a surfside squat made of tarpaulins and rope, confounding official efforts to move him on and defying louts who occasionally trash his ramshackle hideaway.

Dubbed "the Bondi caveman" because of his wild beard and his camp's location on a coastal rock ledge, Mhiyles says he has nowhere else to go and simply wants to be left alone to write poetry and feed sea birds.

"The only place left for me after this is over there," he tells AFP, pointing to the waves lapping the shore at the...